Archive for April 2010

OPINION: NFC silicon suppliers Inside Contactless and NXP both say they now expect to see a range of Android NFC phones arriving on the market from the end of this year with, says Inside's Loic Hamon, a "vast portfolio of phones next year for sure." More

The market is beginning to move towards a situation where consumers could have NFC phones containing multiple secure elements from multiple service providers, says GlobalPlatform, raising a potentially contentious issue regarding the way in which consumers would be able to use the various NFC services on their phone. More

Mobile network operator Polkomtel has partnered with BZ WBK bank to run an NFC payments trial in the cities of Warsaw, Wroclaw and Poznan. The trial is due to begin in June and five hundred... More

Consult Hyperion has agreed to help fund a PhD research project being undertaken by Thomas Diakos at the University of Surrey. "There are obvious risks associated with making transactions using the standard Chip and PIN... More

TazCard, a stand-alone NFC device which communicates via USB and Zigbee instead of a mobile network connection, is set to launch by the end of 2010 with a target price of €150 — and a very different approach to building NFC ecosystems. More

Passengers on Frankfurt's U-Bahn commuter services will be able to access a range of travel information services via smart posters located in each carriage. More

Community State Bank in Lamar, Colorado has become the latest local bank to offer Bling Nation's sticker-based mobile contactless payments service to its customers. Community State Bank's implementation includes a strong customer loyalty element with... More

Mobile network operator T-Mobile Czech Republic has begun testing NFC at its offices in the Czech Republic. Participants can use their Samsung Star NFC phones to gain entry to the building and to individual offices,... More

Inside Contactless and NXP, the leading suppliers of NFC mobile phone chips, say the first commercial Android NFC phones will arrive later this year — with many more to follow in the first half of 2011. More

NXP and Trusted Logic have released an open source NFC Android API designed to work with a second generation NFC Android stack developed by the two companies which, they say, "provides a complete integration into... More

Developers looking to create NFC solutions and devices will now be able to download the company's NFC protocol stack for Android, MeeGo, Linux and Windows Mobile phones from the Sourceforge free open source software website. More

The mobile network operator has partnered with card issuers, airlines, a cinema chain, a car manufacturer and others to run a series of tests of NFC standard technology and aims to introduce NFC services "in the near future". More

The All Facebook blog reports that Facebook is issuing RFID tags to all the delegates attending its f8 developer conference: All attendees of the f8 developer conference are receiving special RFID tags that enable them... More

The latest in a host of near field communication-related patent applications from Apple covers the use of an NFC-enabled iPhone for buying an airline ticket and for checking in baggage. As well as a manned... More

Innovision Research & Technology has launched BuyNFC.com, an online store for NFC application developers and consumers looking to purchase NFC tags. BuyNFC.com offers Innovision's Topaz NFC tags in a wide range of form factors including... More

NFC specialist Vivotech has signed a partnership with Taggo, the sticker-based mobile loyalty programme platform provider founded by high profile customer loyalty specialist Aneace Haddad. Taggo enables consumers to sign up for multiple customer loyalty... More

Veolia Transport, operator of bus and tram services covering the city of Nice, site of the soon to launch Nice NFC City pre-commercial pilot, and the surrounding towns and villages, is to install NFC and... More

Gadget blog Gizmodo has got its hands on what appears to be an early version of the next iPhone, expected to be released later this year. Gizmodo got hold of the device after it was... More

A new research report published by management consultancy The Human Chain looks in detail at the potential of NFC-enabled MicroSD cards to drive adoption of near field communication-based services. The report examines the current status... More

Yet another NFC-related Apple patent application has been published, this time targeting the concert, entertainment and sports ticketing sectors. 'System and method for providing electronic event tickets' uses iTunes and near field communication to deliver... More